Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory;
Division of Ocean and Climate Physics;
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences;
School of International and Public Affairs

Role:

Faculty

Description:

The PaleoDynamics Lab at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory seeks to characterize and understand climate variability and change on multi-decadal to centennial timescales. Climate research is limited in its ability to understand these climatic variations directly from the instrumental record because such observations are not widely available for more than about a century. To circumvent this limitation, modern instrumental records are supplemented with climate proxy records and climate model simulations to characterize these low-frequency modes of change. Our group is particularly interested in how multiple climate proxies can be combined to yield hemispheric and global maps of climate variability spanning the Common Era (the last two thousand years), how climate models represent climatic change over this time period, and how to use model-data comparisons on paleoclimatic timescales to inform future climate projections.